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Navigate the Extended Reality landscape with clarity

The XR Mind Map is a living, visual guide to AR, VR, and MR— connecting technologies, tools, standards, data, and real-world use cases so teams can learn faster and build smarter.

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  • • VR, AR, MR fundamentals
  • • WebXR & 3D frameworks
  • • Open standards & formats
  • • Enterprise & cultural use cases
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What is the XR Mind Map?

The XR Mind Map is a structured, curated overview of Extended Reality: VR, AR, and MR. It organizes the field into clear branches—technologies, design, tools, data, standards, ecosystems, and use cases—so you can understand how the pieces fit together.

Whether you’re a developer, designer, researcher, or decision-maker, the map helps you locate what you need quickly: from WebXR and real-time engines, to open formats like glTF and USD, to practical deployments in training, culture, healthcare, and field operations.

Visual Overview

A single view of the XR stack and ecosystem.

Searchable & Navigable

Find topics fast, expand branches, follow paths.

Standards-Forward

Highlights open standards and formats that keep you future-proof.

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Key Branches in the Map

Technologies

VR, AR, MR, WebXR, spatial mapping, passthrough, hand/eye tracking, and device capabilities.

Design

Interaction patterns, comfort, accessibility (a11y), performance budgets, prototyping.

Tools

Unity, Unreal, Three.js, Babylon.js, Blender, Godot, WebGPU/WebGL pipelines.

Data

3D formats (glTF, USD, X3D), CAD/BIM, GIS, point clouds, photogrammetry, IoT streams.

Standards

W3C Immersive Web, Khronos (glTF, OpenXR), OGC (geospatial), BuildingSMART (BIM), Metaverse Standards Forum.

Use Cases

Training & simulation, cultural heritage, healthcare, field operations, education, and games.

How to use this site

  1. Search for keywords like “WebXR”, “Unity”, or “glTF”.
  2. Expand branches to see related topics and follow the path.
  3. Click nodes to focus and read context in the sidebar.
  4. Export the map as JSON to share or adapt.
  5. Import your customized map to continue where you left off.

What’s inside

  • • Concise definitions and relationships between XR domains
  • • Signals to open standards and future-proof formats
  • • Practical, industry-relevant use cases
  • • Pointers to engines, libraries, workflows, and data types

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s the difference between AR, VR, and MR?

VR immerses you in a fully digital world, AR overlays digital content onto the real world, and MR blends the two with spatial awareness and occlusion.

Why emphasize open standards?

Open standards (like WebXR, glTF, and OpenXR) reduce lock-in, expand compatibility, and keep your work portable across platforms and devices.

Can I adapt the map for my team?

Yes. Use Export/Import to version your own taxonomy, then extend nodes for team-specific tools, standards, or workflows.

Ready to explore or customize?

Jump into the interactive map or bring your own structure with JSON import.

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